When you see green algae in a fish tank, the simplest way is to clean it manually. The fish is fished out and temporarily raised in other places, and then the algae attached to the tank wall and the tank bottom are removed by using an algae scraping knife or a soft cloth. It should be noted that although this way is fast, but the symptoms are not cured, if we do not pay attention to prevention, it will soon grow out.
If you feel that it is very troublesome to clean up algae regularly, you can raise some algae-eating organisms, the most common is cleaning fish, such as scavengers, golden mosses and so on. In addition, some snails and shrimps also have the habit of eating algae, but if they are mixed with fish, there is still a certain risk.
Drug algae removal is generally rarely used for household fish farming, because it is still difficult to control the dosage of drugs, so there is a certain risk to the health of fish. There are two commonly used algaecides, one is glutaraldehyde, the other is copper sulfate, both of which have good results, but can not be mixed, otherwise it will lead to failure.
To avoid algae outbreaks, we must control from the source. There are two ways to control algae reproduction, one is to strengthen filtration, which can reduce the content of organic matter in water, of course, the same purpose can be achieved by reducing feeding. The other is appropriate shade, algae outbreak can not be separated from light, so shade can also limit its growth.
